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Show sss ; oo OUR WEALTHY FEOPLE. The limitation of private fortune.! H rind the appropriation of the excess H for government support is tbe remedy' H lor the rapid pyramiding of American H lortunea now going on. suggested by ' Deputy Commissioner of Accounts! Henry H. Klein of New York City, a H Hudent of economics. Klein s statistical mind and his j mathematical pencil, working in uni-on, uni-on, ha resulted in the conclusion 1 that there are 50 families in America 1 each of which controls more than 1 1100.000.000. iiiiiiiH He says there are a hundred fami ' H lies that control more than $50,000,000 H each and 500 families that control over H $10,000,000 each H Comparative)), the country's wealth. H Klein asserts. Is centering in a few il U A I bands. I 'The concentration if wealth in the United States." Klein declares, 'has reached its last stage. It will be very dangerous to permit il to go further The structure is top heavy and it mujt be sliced off at the lop." Much more interesting to the average aver-age man than Mr. Klein's conclusions in ihis regard, are the lists of Ameri can families he give, and his entl mates of their wealth at present Klein places the estate of John D. Rockefeller at three billions of dollars, dol-lars, the combined estates of J. D. :.nd William Rockefeller a live billions, bil-lions, far in the lead of any othei Americans Then come the Pratt family. $400, 000,000: Harkness. 1400,000.000: Car- negie. fO0,0OO,900; Weyerhauscr es tale. $300,000,000. Vanderbllut. $300,-000,000; $300,-000,000; Astora $300.000. 0OU . i'aync-H i'aync-H Whitney family. $200,000,000; Trick H estate, $150,000,000, Goelola, $lu0000. J 000; J. J. Hill estate, $100,009,000; Hetty Green estate. $100,000,000; Har H rlman. $H)i,000.000; Morgans. $15u, 000,000 to $200.000, ooo; Flagler estate. H ?l(iO.'i"i',i'if0; Armour. ?1 H Swift. $100,000,000; and tbe Goulds, H $100,000,000. and so on through a list H of a score whose fortunes amount to '. I is low as a paltry 150,000,000 Klein says that 50 per ceni of the I oil Industry Is controlled bv twelvt tamtlies with the Rockefellers awa m the lead; that 800 persons control $15, I 000.000 of property, that 10 families! control 60 per cent of the tobacco wealth, that the railways are controlled con-trolled by one and three-tenths per' cent of the stockholders and that one and five tenths per cent of the stock holders in the steel trust hold 51 pet, cent of the. stock. All of which Is interesting, and. per-1 haps, at least illuminating. |